The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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